Lawyers in England

Paula Hanlon

Senior associate

Irwin Mitchell

Paula James

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Paula Laird

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Paula Myers

Director of legal services for private client services at Irwin Mitchell, based in Leeds. Handles claims on validity of wills, involving issues of undue influence, and testamentary capacity, proprietary estoppel claims, rectification actions, financial provision claims, disputes involving trusts and breach of trust claims. Professional negligence claims regarding trusts, wills and advice provided in relation to that.

Irwin Mitchell

Paula New

Paula is a senior consultant with extensive experience of advising both employers and employees on all UK employment law-related matters, both contentious and non-contentious. She has particular experience in handling complex employment disputes in the Employment Tribunal, and the associated settlement negotiations. She is highly experienced in discrimination and whistleblowing litigation. She frequently acts for senior executives in dispute and severance situations and when doing so is able to draw on extensive experience of defending such matters, acting for global and national employers. Paula also specialises in conducting disciplinary, grievance or other workplace investigations as a Workplace Investigator. Paula is particularly skilled at handling complex and/or senior level investigations where volumes of evidence may be high, where senior individuals are implicated in the allegations, where the issues are inherently of a legal nature, where litigation is threatened, and in all cases where a robust but sensitive approach may be required. She has over 10 years of experience conducting independent fact finding investigations across multiple sectors including NHS employers, local authorities, educational institutions, financial services, construction and manufacturing firms, defence organisations, agricultural employers and a range of SME businesses. She has dealt with collective as well as individual grievances and is well used to dealing with represented complainants or trade union involvement. Paula trained and qualified as a solicitor at leading international firm Eversheds LLP (now Eversheds Sutherland), where she spent 11 years of her career. Since then, she has continued her career in a consultancy capacity with a number of firms, including Eversheds Sutherland, Birketts LLP and boutique employment law firm Worden Richmond LLP. Paula also sits as a part time fee paid Employment Judge in the Midlands East region.

Bellevue Law

Paula Shea

Paula has over 20 years’ experience. She is a Solicitor, Partner and is Head of the South Coast Succession and Tax Team. Paula is well liked by her clients and is known for her practical and sensitive approach. She thrives on the technically challenging, unusual and interesting cases and creates innovative solutions to tricky problems. In addition to entrepreneurs and those with significant business interests, Paula acts for a number of well known sports and media clients in connection with wills, probate, and tax-related matters. Paula is particularly skilled in advising elderly clients and assisting families with vulnerable children. Paula believes in a holistic approach, working with other advisers and those within her team and the firm to deliver the best outcome for their clients.

Blake Morgan LLP

Paula Squire

Paula is a Partner and has been with the Clarke Willmott Employment team for nine years, specialising in employment law and human resources advice.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Paula Warnock

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Paulena Panayiotou

Consultant

Hanne & Co

Pauline Chandler

Pauline is a Principal Lawyer at Slater and Gordon in Manchester. She has specialised in industrial accident and disease claims for more than 40 years. During her career she has helped thousands of clients recover compensation for mesothelioma, asbestos and other industrial diseases. These have included bladder cancer from chemicals, nasal cancer from wood dust and other skin and lung diseases caused by chemicals and irritant dusts at work. Pauline has pursued some high profile and important and ground-breaking industrial disease cases, such as Knox & Others-v-Cammell Laird known as the "Welders Lung" case and several other Court of Appeal cases that have changed the law for asbestos victims and are frequently relied on and referred to as precedents in other disease claim judgements. Such judgements include: Owen-v-IMI Yorkshire Copper Tube; Jeromson-v-Shell Tankers; Furness-v-Massey; McCamley-v-Cammel Laird; Johnson-v-Reed Corrugated Cases; Sabin-v-British Rail; Cookson-v-Novartis Grimsby; and Spillett-v-Carillion. In addition she has successfully pursued numerous nasal cancer and asbestos cases that other solicitors abandoned because they could not find the relevant employers’ liability insurers.

Slater and Gordon

Pauline Cowie

Partner

TLT

Pauline Fowler

Partner in top ranked niche family law practice; work includes complex financial matters with an international dimension; private children’s law including international adoption; pre- and post-nuptial contracts; cohabitation; mediation, particularly in complex financial cases.

Hughes Fowler Carruthers

Pauline Lépissier

Pauline advises on a wide range of disputes, including contractual issues, PFI disputes (primarily facilities management contracts regarding issues such as performance deductions, unavailability, disputes between subcontractors), regulatory investigations, IT disputes, fraud, insurance disputes, debt recovery, defamation, partnership disputes, and prison law. Pauline acts for a wide range of clients including private companies, Registered Providers, individuals and regulators. Pauline aims to deliver practical advice that takes into account her clients’ commercial objectives, including cost-effective resolutions and protecting reputations. Pauline has experience in a range of different courts and methods of Alternative Dispute Resolution, including arbitration, adjudication and mediation.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Pauline McArdle

Pauline specialises in employment law. She was originally called to the bar in 1986, and subsequently requalified as a solicitor in 1991 whilst working for City law firm Norton Rose. In 1994, she joined Denton Hall (now Dentons), a leading international firm. She became a partner in 1999 and subsequently headed up the Employment team. In almost 35 years of experience of contentious and non-contentious employment law, Pauline has acted for a wide range of employer and employee clients in the private and public sector. These have included central and local government departments, a major investment bank, a leading concert venue, a large supermarket and numerous individuals in the media, legal, energy, arts and financial services sectors. Pauline acts for both employers and employees and has extensive experience of advising clients in the financial services, legal, energy and media sectors. Her experience includes acting for employees with sex and age discrimination claims, advising senior employees and partners on their rights and obligations on exit and in their new roles and advising on the UK employment law rights of individuals based abroad. More recently, Pauline has: Advised a prominent media figure on their employment status, unfair dismissal rights and a substantial claim for historical unpaid holiday. Been negotiating an exit for a senior executive including advice on enforceability of restrictive covenants following a breach of contract, unfair dismissal and his rights in respect of his shareholding. Been negotiating an exit strategy for a senior executive with over 40 years service including advice on age discrimination and unfair dismissal. She has also advised employer clients on disciplinary action and the enforcement of restrictive covenants.

Bellevue Law

Pauline McNamara

Pauline McNamara joined JMW's Liverpool office in February 2024 as a Consultant Partner in the Family Team. Pauline’s area of specialisation are:- Acting in high conflict divorces. Negotiations of difficult financial settlements. Litigation concerning family business. Disputes relating to property owned by family members/third party trusts and third parties within divorce proceedings. Particular interest in acting against narcissistic and borderline personality types. A conflict contested cases relating to children. Pre and post nuptial agreements Referred to as brilliant in the 2015 Legal 500, Pauline was said to head an excellent team. The 2019 edition of the guide described Pauline as a strong and experienced negotiator who is supported by a close group of fee earners, a force to be reckoned with. Pauline has been consistently ranked within the Chambers and Partners legal directory since 2017. Pauline is also a recommended family lawyer on the Spear's 500. Pauline enjoys travelling. Pauline can also be found supporting through thick and thin Everton Football Club and particularly enjoys supporting all of the team members who she has previously mentored throughout the years of her practicing and seeing how they all thrive.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Pav Clair

Pav is a Principal Associate in the Employment team, based in the Birmingham office. Pav has a track record of providing practical and straightforward advice to employer clients within a variety of different sectors. Pav's expertise includes defending Employment Tribunal claims, advising on redundancies & restructures, capability & sickness, and the thorny issue of TUPE. Pav also has extensive experience in advising on the employment aspects of corporate transactions and on TUPE issues in relation to service provision changes. He has a keen interest in enforcing restrictive covenants and preventing employees from using confidential information. For the businesses which Pav acts for, he describes himself as being an extension to their workforce rather than an external lawyer.

Shoosmiths LLP

Pav Samothrakis

Pav is an experienced marine, offshore and energy lawyer who advises offshore contractors and service providers, shipowners, charterers, cargo interests and insurers in the offshore energy, shipping and international trade sectors, with a focus on the Middle East, African and Caspian markets. He has particular expertise in energy and offshore matters and negotiates and advises on all the main forms of industry contracts including under the BIMCO, LOGIC and FIDIC forms, as well as assisting clients with bespoke contractual arrangements and solutions. Pav also represents clients in litigation and arbitration matters in the offshore energy and marine sectors, in addition to marine casualties and investigation. He has extensive experience representing clients in arbitration under all the main arbitral rules including LMAA, ICC, LCIA, SIAC, DIFC-LCIA, DIAC, UNCITRAL and ADDCAC.

Keystone Law

Pawel Piotrowicz

Pawel is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Electronics, Software and Communications team. He has industry experience having previously worked as a researcher for a major multinational electronics company developing memory devices. He represents a wide variety of clients in the high technology sector including a significant number of private inventors and start-up companies and clients located in the UK, Europe, Japan and the US and large multinational companies. Pawel specialises in the fields of physics, electronics and computer software, and also in inventions which are multi-disciplinary in nature. His areas of expertise include semiconductor devices, embedded systems, power electronics, automotive electronics, nanotechnology, spintronics, printed electronics, RFID devices, telecommunications, computer networks, computer simulation, optical systems, sensors and medical devices. He handles applications, oppositions and appeals at the European Patent Office and the UK Intellectual Property Office. He is familiar with overseas practice, particularly the US, Japan, Korea and China, obtaining protection for his clients via local associates. He also give opinions on infringement and validity. Pawel is regularly invited by companies and universities to lecture on intellectual property and to hold intellectual property ‘clinics’. He has been reported in the press and given radio interviews on intellectual property.

Venner Shipley LLP

Peggy Lim

Solicitor

Lisa's Law Solicitors

Peggy Ray

Senior partner at Goodman Ray, specialising in all aspects of complex children work, both public and private law, and adoption.

Goodman Ray

Penelope Marshall

Penelope is a partner in the local government team in Birmingham and an expert in local authority litigation with particular emphasis on highways, education and social services and high value complex claims. Penelope has advised clients on policy matters as well as claims and has taken part in numerous training events and spoken at local and national conferences. Noted in Chambers & Partners as an excellent lawyer in the defendant personal injury field, Penelope has been commended for her exceptional client-focused approach.

Weightmans LLP

Penelope Radcliffe

Bevan Brittan LLP

Penny Arneja

Senior Associate

Collyer Bristow LLP

Penny Brownbridge

Solicitor

Wilson Solicitors LLP